The artwork that I chose is the “souper dress”. The dress is not just a physical product as it is the reification of an idea based on language pun – the word “souper” pertains to the phrase “to soup”, which means having a meal. The pattern of the dress is is repetition of a can of soup in a picture – a scene that pre-faces the event formalized as “having dinner”, which can be visualized and categorized into a consumer product within the frame of human desires, among the seemingly unlimited frames of the same can of soup that hints on the self-replicating nature of desire, and the way consummerism structures itself in order to infiltrate and peer into all parts of the society.

在這種情況下，人類基本生活必需品的界限——飲食和商業世界，把每個人的欲望和需求作為產品的先決條件的市場，正在變得模糊。它反映了一種滲透在青年文化中的唯物主義意識。在流行文化中，作為人類活動的必要的飲食活動正被作為一種產品加以包裝。這件冰凍的產品展示了消費主義對社會的影響，以及它是如何被滿足的，并通過時尚和20世紀60年代以來興起的魅力文化等事物來滿足人們的欲望。這件衣服是紙做的，它從一種非常流行的罐頭湯中獲得靈感，這種湯表明了一種流行的感覺。在當時的年輕人中。紙是一種一次性和即時可棄的材料，也反映了產品在青年文化中的一次性品質，因為它很容易改變，只能暫時享受。The boundaries of basic necessities of human in this case – the event of eating and the commercial world, the marketplace that treats every individual's desire and needs as a prerequisite of products is being blurred. It reflects a sense of materialism that pervades youth culture. The necessary event of eating as a human activity is being framed as a product in the popular culture. The frozen product that bespeaks the influence of consumerism on the society and how it is being gratified and feeds on the desires of people through things such as fashion and the culture of glamour that have sparked since the 1960s. The dress is made of paper and it draws inspiration from a very popular can soup that signals a sense of trendiness among the young people at that time. Paper, being such a disposable and instantly disposable material also reflects the disposable quality of products in youth culture, as it is easily changed and can only be relished temporarily.

The design of the dress conveys a senseof whimsical playfulness, catching attention with pop-art patterns and eye-catching colors and shapes that are reminiscent the style that are seen in popular advertisements. These trends are often embraced by youngsters and those people who identify themselves with this idea of youthfulness, even though the novelty appeal of the dress will eventually fades away, and fades away pretty quickly, as the shortcomings of the dress will be exposed as the paper is not actually practical for people to wear and the colors that makes the whole thing beautiful will fade away. Also, the material can be easily destroyed and burnt and sooner or later, get no longer usable, and will be thrown away by the owners.

On the other hand, even though it is short-lived, paper dress had caused considerable impact on the development of modern fashion. In fact, paper clothing once appeared for a brief time in the late 60s but eventually disappeared and eventually vanished from the market. Of course, paper clothing today can still be used in making disposable garments for specialized purposes, such as in hospitals. The design of the dress createsa vibrant, youthful, fairly enthusiastic and bubblegum image that coincides with the youth culture which always seeks novelty and brightens the day with enthusiasm.